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The release of the JavaScript API as part of Tableau's 8.0 launch has opened up an entire world of possibilities for people wanting to integrate Tableau visualizations within their existing business applications. Since I myself am not an familiar with JavaScript even in the slightest, I decided to sit down with someone from Tableau who is and get their perspective on how big a game changer this API really is. Fortunately for me (unfortunately for him) Michael Kovner, Tableau Product Consultant and JavaScript dabbler, sits close enough for me to harass on a near daily basis.

Today, our friends at Cloudera have formally launched their SQL-on-hadoop offering called "Impala". Did you know that Tableau was one of the first ISVs to support Impala?

Sets have been an evolving part of Tableau Desktop and that remains true in 8.0. Our New Features page offers an excellent overview of the new possibilities available to you using sets in 8.0. With this blog post, I wanted to get a little deeper into two ways that sets can help you make your data more meaningful and useful in dynamic ways: adding sets to hierarchies and using sets in calculations.

Earlier this week, you met the first half of our customer speakers for TCC London. Today, we're excited to announce the rest of them. Read on to "meet" the second half of the TCC London customer speakers.

As March comes to an end, let's have a look at what people have been blogging about this month. I'd like to thank all of those who are out there, blogging about Tableau. Whether it's innovating new ways to use the software or applying it to real data, we're hugely grateful! 

February was short, but it didn't stop our community producing lots of great content. Here is the collection of what's been happening on the web in the last month.

Didn't have time to look for blog content in Jamuary? No worries: we do it for you. Here is the collection of what our customers had to say about Tableau last month.

Here's the belated round up of December's blogging activity. If you follow me on Twitter (@acotgreave) you'll find these as I find them. If you published an interesting blog post in December and it's not here, get in touch on twitter and I'll subscribe to your blog.

This week, we launched a new pharmaceutical solutions page to show off some of Tableau's use cases for pharmaceutical analytics, pharmaceutical sales and physician marketing.

At the end of each month, I will pull together a collection of links to the most relevant, innovative and interesting Tableau-related content I come across, inspired by Andy Kirk's monthly visualisation round ups.

Last week, I blogged about the Big Data announcements we made in conjunction with the Strata-Hadoopworld conference. There was one additional highlight that didn't make my blog post because the technology had not been announced yet at the conference. It is actually a very significant announcement for customers using Tableau on top of Cloudera's hadoop distribution (CDH). At the conference, Cloudera announced a new hadoop technology called Impala, which is a real-time query processing engine for hadoop. Tableau was chosen as one of its first partners to integrate with Cloudera Impala and we previewed an early version of the Impala connector at the conference.

As I have been preparing the Filters, Filters and More Filters session (part of the Jedi Track) at #TCC12 I came across a neat and very useful trick using filters with table calculations. I will be using our Sample Superstore data to show you this trick.